Guiding Question
All through the unit, participants explore the guiding question:
How do people affect salmon and steelhead, and how do salmon and steelhead affect people?
This guiding question helps to focus participants’ study and activities throughout the unit. Participants continually come back to this question as they acquire more knowledge about their community, salmon and steelhead, creek monitoring, and habitat restoration.
Unit activities support participants in exploring this question through investigations that help them find out:
- What are the needs of salmon and steelhead?
- What can we learn from the salmon and steelhead in our community’s watershed?
- What value do people in our community place on salmon and steelhead and how has that changed over time?
- In what ways have salmon and steelhead populations changed in our watershed over time, and what are possible causes of those changes?
- How well does our watershed support salmon and steelhead, and what factors influence that?
- How do our everyday actions affect the salmon and steelhead in our watershed?
- In what ways do the salmon and steelhead in our watershed impact us?
- What can we do to improve or maintain the salmon and steelhead populations in our watershed?
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